Programme of the 18th International Family Congress
11.00 - 15.00.- Registration of Participants
16.00 - 16.30.- Opening Act
Authorities, Pending Confirmation.
16.30 - 17.30.- Opening Conference - "Family, School of Human Rights".
Antonio Monserrat Quintana, Member of General Council of the Judiciary of Spain.
17.30 - 18.15.- Coffee Break
18.15 - 19.45.- Panel 1 "The Family and Public Opinion"
Hannah Branch, Head of Partnerships of Henley Media Group , Advertising Company organising the National Family Week in the UK (*).
Mamen Sánchez, Journalist and Assistant Director of the Magazine “Hello”
Ana Duato, Actress.
Moderator: Julián Quirós, Director of Las Provincias newspaper.
9.45 - 11.45.- Roundtable "Experiences in Family Enrichment around the World"
Family Enrichment Leaders from Kenya, D.R. of the Congo, the USA, Poland, Italy, India, the Philippines, Bolivia, Ecuador, Australia.
11.45 - 12.30.- Coffee Break
12.30 - 14.00.- Panel 2 "The Family in the Political Agenda"
Mary Maitum, Former Minister of Justice in the State of Uganda
Juan Cotino, Vice-President of the Autonomous Government of Valencia.
Arancha Quiroga, President of Basque Parliament (*)
Dainius Kreivys, Minister of Economy in theGovernment of Lithuania (*)
Moderator: Guillermo Fraile, Professor of the Finance Academic Area of the IAE Business School and Director of the Standard Bank Family-Business Balance Research Center.
14.00 - 16.00.- Lunch
16.00 - 17.30.- Panel 3 "The Family in the Civil Society and in the International Bodies"
Jerôme Vignon, Director of European Commission for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (*)
Alfonso de Salas, Head of the Human Rights Intergovernmental Cooperation Division, Council of Europe
Eric Olson, Head of the Disabled Persons Scheme of the Secretariat of the UN in New York (*).
Moderator: Michael Schwarz, Chairman of Vienna NGO Committee on the Family, platform for coordination and promotion of NGOs represented at the United Nations, who are interested in questions relating to the Family.
17.30 - 18.15.- Coffee Break
18.15 - 19.15.- Closing Conference. "Why Marriage Matters: a View from the Social Sciences”
W. Bradford Wilcox, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage
Project at the University of Virginia.
19.15 - 19.45.- Closing Act
(*) Pending confirmation.
